Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-08
NUMBER TWO.
'rHg WHEELING BOYS PUT UP A GREAT
<GA1E OF BASE BALL
On the Island Park, Yesterday Afternoon, and
Evansville Again Fails Victim 70 Thar
Superior Playing-fo-Dayis Games.

A good-sized audience watched the Ma
rooms do the would-be champions from
Muskingum's sunny banks to the tune OF
eleven to three, yesterday afternoon.
The base ball enthusiast was there
IN all his glory. He iourished
like q green bay tree and there was none
who dared modest him or make him afraid.
He was more than usually unreasonable
yesterday, and his manifestations Of APP
prevail or disapproval at various stages OF
the game were prolonged and frequent.
To put it light, there was some cause for
the disappearing cries at certain points.
Umpire Ullery's decisions might have been
improved upon and the crowd was not at
all slow to apprize him OF the tact.
Both clubs were roasted and
abont evenly. The difference was that
most of the roasting vas done
while the GAINESVILLE warriors were in the
lead, and Wheeling's admirers quickly rec
ognized the dark, deep scheme as they
thought, to give the visitors the game. 1t
is safe to say that bad decisions deprived
the home team Of at least one run, though
in the final one-sidedness ofthe game it was
a matter Of small importance.
The outlook was very gloomy for the
Wheeling sluggers for the first three in
nings. Hartmyer seemed TO be o puzzler
while the GAINESVILLE batters were very
much at home in hitting Morrison's curves.
A melancholy silence settled down over
the audience, which was only broken by
the voice Of o solitary GAINESVILLE admirer.
The cloud began to lift as the boys began
to hit, and as the terrific smuggling continued
the smiles became mora frequent and
broader until a wide grin seemed to widen
and spread over the whole ground.
The batting Of the home team was inn
mense. Heavier smuggling ut opportune
times has scarcely ever been seen on the
grounds. The 'butcher lad" from Zanes-
vile was simply butchered. In the fifth
inning his hitherto deceptive shoots were
caught on to and after that the pig skin
was pounded until the hardest brave that
had come to Wheeling expecting to reap
such a harvest Of CORY scalps, gave up IN
despair.
The visitors could not do anything with
Morrison after the third inning. His work
from then till the end of the game was
magnificent, twelve strike-outs being scored
to his credit and but one hit being secured.
He wa grandly supported by the whole
team, only one error, the tumble OF q ter
rife grounder to White, was made.
The playing of the Maroons could scarce
ly have been improved upon, and veriies
the oft repeated statement that they can
play as good ball as any team in the league.
In the first inning both sides went ont in
one, two, three, order. In the half of the
second, johnson got o base on balls, stole
second and came home on q safe hit. In
the third, GAINESVILLE scored her last two
runs, on a clean home run hit over the
fence by Mccain. Miller was hit by ball,
stole second and scored on o safe hit.
Wheeling scored first on the third when
Purvis went all the way round on errors.
In the fifth O safe hit, a stolen base and
an error enabled her to score again.
The home team caught their second wind
in the sixth and went in to win. They
pounded the butcher boys curves until
three men crossed the home plate. They re-
peated and ampliied the operation in the
sixth. In the seventh a base hit by Nor
rison, singles by Dunn, Michel and Nichol-
son, a home run by White and an error
enabled Wheeling to pile up five runs, VIZ
tually winning the game. They scored
again in the ninth on Dunn's t~wo-bagger
and Hartmyer's error.
To-day the same clubs will play two
more games, an exhibition game in the
morning at 10. 30 and the regular game in
the afternoon. II the grand playing Of the
last few days is kept up base ball enthusi-
asts will have o treat to-day.
Yesterdays full score is given below: